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Alpha
This lesson is in the alpha phase, which means that it has been taught once and lesson authors are iterating on feedback.
Key Points
- Markdown is the language used to write Carpentries lesson content —
it is plain text with simple formatting rules.
- The Carpentries Workbench template generates a professional lesson
website automatically from your Markdown files.
- Each episode is a single
.md file in the
episodes/ folder; the config.yaml file
controls which episodes appear and in what order.
- GitHub Desktop lets you edit lesson files locally and push changes
without using the command line.
- Data curation is an ongoing process that begins when data is
created, not after a project ends.
- Practical habits — clear folder structures, descriptive file names,
README files, and open formats — are the foundation of good
curation.
- The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
are the standard framework for research data management.
- Institutional repositories like PURR provide permanent, citable
homes for research data.
- Large-scale data sharing relies on tools like Globus that handle
high-volume transfers reliably.